Who am I?

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14. Who am I?

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- I was born in Chicago, but grew up in New Jersey.
- When I was 23, I went to Paris with my sister and did performance art.
- I returned to Manhattan, where I worked in a book store, and while there, I met a young man who turned out to be a well-known photographer.
- We lived together in an historic old hotel in Manhattan.
- I spent the early 1970s painting, writing , and doing performance art.
- In 1971, I performed in a one-act play which I co-wrote with Sam Shepard
- I wrote many poems, including several poems about Sam Shepard.
- On February 10, 1971, accompanied by an electric guitarist, I gave my first public poetry performance.
- I wrote lyrics for some Blue Oyster Cult songs and became romantically involved with Allan Lanier, Blue Oyster cult's keyboardist.
- On March 12, 2007, I was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
- In 2010, a book I wrote was published. It was a memoir about my time living in Manhattan in the 1970s, and it won the National Book Award for Nonfiction